A few hours ago here in Astoria Queens, some cops were handing out flyers to people getting off the subway. A white guy with tattoos on his fingers got in my way as I walked in front of the cops, and asked me for a swipe right in front of them. “If you want […]
As the demons in the Republican clown car vomit all over each other about who can declare war the loudest, I’m compelled to get my blog on. Desperate to get revenge against their declared Antichrist Barack Obama, their new platform is fear. I hear no talk about figuring out how to stop another psychopath […]
NYC Rats are like no other creature in the world. I don’t know why there has been no documentary on them. Call them what you will, these guys have a gritty and tenacious soul. They’re streetwise on an a very high level. Almost everybody in the city has crossed paths with them in an intimate […]
“PAY YOUR FARE!” Yelling “Pay Your Fare!” through a garbled speaker is usually all the token booth clerk can summon when they see you sneak through the subway turnstiles to catch a train. Sometimes they call the police though. You don’t want that. Nobody needs that. The MTA is horrible at all forms […]
The first time I was in Jury duty in Queens New York, somebody had told me that if you donate Blood, they might let you leave. At the very least, they might put you to the front of all the thwarting lines. I don’t know why I believed that, but when asked to give, my […]
Completing my diatribe on the perils of transporting yourself around the NYC area I will present my greatest triumph in escaping vulnerability in a very unique way. This last one goes down in Queens late one night. It began earlier in the day with me buying a Bass Clarinet with money that I didn’t have. […]
A journey through the bowels of the NYC transit system would not be complete without a trip on our vaunted Bus service. The Bus system in NYC is a whole other world complete with it’s own sets and real life plays. I can quickly recall watching a driver allow a man who was so inebriated […]
Continuing with my expose on just how dangerous it can be to get excessively inebriated on the Subway I would be remiss not to tell the story of a brutal take and run on a man who set himself up so bad it was painful to watch. Out in Jackson Heights, where this blog actually […]
When you descend below the surface in New York City, your morality may descend as well. People that want to take advantage of you meet the people who are vulnerable to be taken advantage of in this dark playground. With everybody engrossed in their phones, we are all targets. An easier mark however is the […]
On the great Louis Armstrong plays W.C. Handy record Louis Armstrong tells a story about going to see a gypsy during a rendition of St. Louis Blues. Pops gets into it and says.. “And when I went to the Gypsy she had fortunes all over the place. Yes, the Gypsy had, fortunes all over the […]
